US Patent Issued to Ciena on Sept. 1 for "Parallelized optical link calibration over an optical section" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,292, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Parallelized optical link calibration over an optical section" was invented by Yinqing Pei (Kanata, Canada), Alex W. MacKay (Ottawa) and David W. Boertjes (Nepean, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of parallelized optical link calibration of an optical section having a plurality of spans interconnecting a transmit Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (OADM) with a receive OADM via a plurality of line amplifiers includes partitioning the optical section into a plurality of sub-sections, each including one or more spans of the plurality of spans; utilizing equipm...